Israel – Israel’s biggest supermarket chains – Super-Sol, Blue Square and Rami Levy – will not boycott Turkish goods, they advised the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor. Earlier this week ministry director general Sharon Kedmi had asked the retailers to continue to sell Turkish products despite the mounting tension between Jerusalem and Ankara.
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Industry, Trade and Labor Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer is a strong advocate for separating business from politics. He stressed his opposition to a boycott, saying that it would only exacerbate the tension.
Super-Sol chairman Rafi Bisker told Kedmi that the chain applauds Ben-Eliezer’s call. Dudi Wiessman, chairman of Blue Square, said his chain agreed to eschew boycotts. Rami Levy, CEO of the Rami Levy Shivuk Hashikma chain, had previously suggested that he would finish selling the Turkish products in inventory and then import equivalents from elsewhere. Yesterday, in a reply to Kedmi’s letter, he wrote, “The delicacy of the situation between the nations is clear to me and I have no intention of causing any damage to companies in trading relationships with Turkey.” He would honor the ministry’s policy, he wrote.
After certain other retailers vowed to boycott Turkish products exporters complained to Ben-Eliezer, expressing concern that their clients in Turkey would return the “favor.”
may be we should boycott them (the store)
The consumers will just naturally not buy these products anyhow so the supermarkets polictically
correctness won’t matter.
the only way to show them is to boycott. we dont need them! if it was the other way around they would boycott us. its a natural response.
Let the products sit on the shelf!!